Washing-machine.



PATENTED MAR. 3, 1903.

J. VIKING. WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1902.

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JAMES VINING, OF NEODESHA, KANSAS.

WASHING -MACHINE.

SI-EGIIEIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,167, dated March3, 1903.

Application filed June 8,1902. Serial No. 110,086. (No model.)

To a whom zit may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES VINING, a citizen of the United States,residing at Neodesha, in the county of 'Wilson and State of Kansas,haveinvented a new and useful Washing-Machine, of which the following isa specification.

The invention relates to improvements in washing-machines.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofwashing-machines and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient oneadapted to be operated with a minimum amount of labor and capable ofenabling clothes to be rapidly and uniformly washed without injuringthem.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of awashing-machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 isa transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspectiveview of the rotary clothes-receptacle.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

l designates a washing-machine body of approximately semicylindricalform supported by suitable legs 2 and composed of approximatelysemicircular sides 3 and a sheet-metal connecting portion 4, forming thebottom and ends of the body. The ends of the body are extended, asshown, and one of the ends is adapted to receive a Wringer. I The lid ishinged at the back and is composed of wooden sides and a sheet-metalconnecting portion similar to the body; but the Washing-machine body andits lid or cover may be constructed in any other desired. manner.

The washing-machine body is provided at opposite sides with bearings 8and 9 to receive journals 10 and 11 of a rotary clothesreceptacle 12.The bearing 8 extends entirely through the side of the body, and theother bearing consists of a recess arranged within the same, and thejournal 10, which extends through the body, is provided at its outer endwith a crank-handle 13 to enable the clothes receptacle to be rotated.The flanges of the lid are also recessed to fit around the journals, andthe latter are provided at their inner ends with plates, which aresecured to the sides of the clothes-receptacle.

The rotary clothes-receptacle consists of a body portion or section14-and a lid or upper section 15, hinged at the back at 16 to the lowersection or body portion and detachably connected to the other end of thesame by books 17, which engage projections 18; but any other suitablefastening device may be employed. The receptacle is approximatelyrectangular, and the sections are provided with transverseconnecting-slats 19 and 20, having rounded outer faces and provided withtapering inner portions, said slats being approximately triangular incross-section and presenting their sharp edges to'the clothes. Thetransverse slats are arranged at the ends of the sections 14 and 15 andare secured in notches of the sides or heads of the same, and the saidsections are provided with lower and upper transverse bars 21 and 22,projecting inward and adapted to be engaged by the clothes and arrangedalso to support longitudinal slats 23 and 24. The transverse bars arerecessed at their outer edges to receive the longitudinal slats, whichare approximately triangular in cross-section and which present sharpedges to the clothes. The inner clothes-engaging edges of the transversebars 22, which are rounded, project a considerable distance beyond theslats for engaging the clothes, and the notches or recesses at theirouter edges are triangular. Then the clothes-receptacle is rotated, theclothes are carried upward to the top of the washing-machine body by theinwardly-projecting transverse bars 21 and 22, and they alternately fallupon the longitudinal and transversely-disposed slats and are therebythoroughly and uniformly operated on by the washing-machine.

It will be seen that the washing-machine is simple and comparativelyinexpensive in construction, that it is easily operated, and that it iscapable of rapidly washing clothes without injuring them.

What I claim is In a washing-machine the combination of a body, a rotaryclothes-receptacle composed for engaging the clothes, and the transverseslats located between the series of longitudinal slats and havingclothes-engaging edges, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES VIN IN G.

Witnesses:

J. F. HULL, D. E. WASSAEU.

